obscurely
2
7.7
- adverb
- /əbˈskjʊrli/
:
de manera oscura
- The instructions were written obscurely, leaving many confused about what to do.
- obscurely placed
But the question is not what we must join in thought to the given concept, but what we must think together with it and in it, though obscurely.
- But the question is not what we must join in thought to the given concept, but what we must think together with it and in it, though obscurely.
Examples
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Still, the two are obscurely related by an event larger than personal genealogy: the Haitian Revolution.
Academic text (2018) -
The hills across the valley, normally a clear view from our kitchen window, stayed obscurely gray, blanketed for months in dense, wet fog.
Fiction book (1998) -
Young people born in Israel, and especially those born on the kibbutzim, made her feel obscurely afraid.
Fiction book (1993) -
I felt, obscurely, the pathos of her transformation: she had become somehow less than herself.
Fiction book (1991) -
"As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely a child's face looking through the window."
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Margiu felt obscurely comforted and lowered her head to pray for the dead and the survivors alike.
Fiction book (2000) -
The human mind, in its distinctive way of understanding, always begins with totalities, obscurely grasped and dimly perceived.
Academic text (1991) -
Sunstein suggests, at times perhaps somewhat obscurely, that he thinks the D.C. circuit court has improperly precluded the EPA from considering costs.
Academic text (2000) -
Twelve-year-old Mattie thought of the eczema as Laura's affliction and felt obscurely relieved.
Fiction book (1996) -
George had a low-grade unsuspected allergy to eggs, which made him puny, irritable, obscurely ill, and uninterested in food.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
67
4.6
In a way that is strange and hard to understand
23
6.3
Hard to see, hear, or remember clearly
3
8.1
In a way that hides the true meaning
3
6.7
In a way that can have more than one meaning
3
4.0
In a way that makes it hard to understand
2
8.0
It is very hard to understand
2
8.1
In a way that is very hard to understand
1
8.3
In a mysterious way that is hard to understand
1
4.4
Not clear or hard to understand
1
8.0
In a way that is hard to understand or see through
1
7.5
In a dark, unclear way that is hard to see or understand
1
8.4
In a way that is very confusing and hard to understand
1
9.6
In a way that hides what someone feels and is hard to understand
In a way that is unclear and gives no details
In a way that avoids clear answers or direct information
In a way that makes something hard to understand
In a way people cannot read or understand
Antonyms
How Obscure
2
8.0
67
4.6
2
7.7
1
4.4
3
6.7
115
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word obscurely comes from obscure, which comes from the Latin obscurus, meaning 'dark' or 'hidden'. So to do something obscurely is to do it 'in the dark', not clear or easy to understand.